Thomas E.G. Ransom

Thomas Edwin Greenfield Ransomb (29 November 1834-29 October 1864) was a Union Army Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Thomas Edwin Greenfield Ransom was born in Norwich, Vermont in 1834, the son of Colonel Truman B. Ransom. He graduated from Norwich University in 1851 and moved to Illinois, where he became a civil engineer and a real estate speculator. He was nicknamed the "boy surveyor" of La Salle County, and he worked for the Illinois Central Railroad before the American Civil War broke out. He became a US Army colonel on 15 February 1862 and a Brigadier-General on 9 November, leading a brigade in John McArthur's division. He suffered a severe head wound at the Battle of Shiloh and suffered another horrific wound at the Battle of Sabine Cross Roads on 4 April 1864, after which he was evacuated to Chicago for treatment. He later led XVII Corps in pursuit of the Confederates through North Georgia into Alabama, and he died of dysentery in October 1864.